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Friday, March 9, 2007

Sometimes I don't know what to call a post, I typically call it whatever day of the week and month (Friday in March). We've been a little busy, a little preoccupied. MIL & FIL are coming this weekend, we just had a few church events this week to attend to and I have a retreat coming up.

I was going to list it all but now I can't because if I do, I might overwhelm myself today and not accomplish any of it, which with in-laws coming my house HAS to be PERFECT. At least in my mind it does or I won't be able to relax. I'm working on a few product reviews, a book review that you will on my blog in a day or so, learning French, labelling the house in French...

Which brings me to a question - if you're labelling a house, would you use the feminine or masculine form? Or put both? I labelled with just the word without "le" or "la"/"un" or "une" - sometimes I did put them only because I wasn't sure what to do. I wonder what the in-laws will think of all the post-it notes around the house. LOL, it looks a little littered. I've decided to make my own French posters about colors, numbers, clock times, etc.

The Berlitz French Language Pack is a complete HIT! Included is a parents' guide, "Help Your Child with a Foreign Language" and it's wonderful. The pack has a first words dictionary, a french/english book with cd, the parents' guide and a certificate of completion. The parents' guide is worth the price of the whole kit, other items are just gravy. Lol.

3 comments:

I am confused by your labeling question. Nouns in French are either masculine or feminine. It isn't something you choose; they just are. For example, window is always la fentetre. (With a hat over the middle e.) It is never masculine. And I think it is easier just to learn this straight off. Adjectives have their "gender" determined by what they are describing. So I would put the articles on the labels. Sorry if this is not your question.

Hee hee! Jessica, you need to read the essays in David Sedaris' book Me Talk Pretty One Day. Most of them are about him moving to France and having to learn how to speak French. They are hysterical! In one of them, he explains how he started buying things in multiples because he couldn't remember which things were feminine and which were masculine. When they are plural, they are neutral. Thus, be bought two CD players, two VCRs, two refrigerators. Very funny. There is also a great essay on a class on French language and culture he took with other aliens where they try to explain what Easter is and to understand various countries' Easter traditions. You may really enjoy the essays given your empathy factor!

BIBLE
Leading Little Ones to God
Right Choices by Kenneth Taylor
Big Thoughts for Little People
Beginnings I: And It Was Good
Egermeier's Bible Story Book
Memorized The Lord's Prayer and Apostles Creed

This is a mixture of literature, science and history. I'm only interested in keeping track of what we've read. This does not include all the books Camille is reading on her own, although there are some marked with (I) which means independent.

Burgess Bird Book for Children
Augustine, Farmer's Boy of Tagaste
Who was the Acrobatic Empress?
Britain - My Country
Marguerite Makes a Book
Across a Dark and Wild Sea
Moonlight Kite
Saint Nicholas
Saint Valentine
On the Same Day in March
The Pebble in My Pocket
The Very Hungry Lion
I am Hindu
Buddha
The Seven Continents
Air is All Around You (I)
Rocks in His Head
What Makes Day and Night
To Space and Back
Eclipse: Darkness in Daytime
The Three Trees
The Cloud Book
The Man Who Named the Clouds
The Snowflake: Water Cycle
Because of Winn-Dixie (I)
Storytime with the Millers
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
Madeline Says Merci
The Storm Book
Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
A Drop Around the World
I Am Muslim
Sir Whong and the Golden Pig
The Sun Girl and the Moon Boy
Heroes: Great Men Through the Ages
Dig Wait Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale
What is the Full Moon Made Of?
Somewhere in the World Right Now
I can be a geologist
Lon Po Po: Red-Riding Hood from China
Dave's Down-to-Earth Rock Shop
The Holy Twins
Animal Dreaming
Surtsey, The Newest Place on Earth
Volcanoes! Mountains of Fire
Super Storms
Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes
Volcanoes Mountains That Blow Their Tops
Earthquakes (Earth Watch Book)
1,000 Years Ago on Planet Earth
Among the Odds and Evens
Subtraction Action
Avalanche Annie
The Tricky Tortoise
Earthquakes by S.Walker
Tsunamis
Oops, neglected this for 2 months.
The Crusades
The Minstrel in the Tower
A Gift from St. Francis
How to be a Medieval Knight
Knights
Castles
Eric the Red, Leif the Lucky
Life and Times of Vikings
Sightseers: Viking World
How to be a Samurai Warrior
Marco Polo Overland to China
The Mongols
The Door in the Wall
Frog and Toad Together
Chanticleer and the Fox
The Black Death
Black Beauty
The Story of Joan of Arc
The Squire and the Scroll
A Medieval Feast
A Walk in the Rainforest
Nature's Green Umbrella
Francis Drake
Johann Gutenberg & Amazing Press
Marguerite Makes a Book
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World
The Clown of God
Christopher Columbus
Leonardo's Horse
Encounter
Ferdinard Magellan
Saint George and the Dragon
The Sad Night
Nicolaus Copernicus: The Earth is a Planet